Best Wishes to All

"Happiness on earth has a limit."

2024 1h 29m JA

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6.5

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6.1

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★6.5TMDB · 51●70Metacritic★6.1IMDB · 1,450

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Synopsis

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A young woman's visit to her grandparents' home leads to the discovery of what's brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.

“Happiness on earth has a limit.”

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Cast

Kotone Furukawa
Koya Matsudai
Masashi Arifuku
Yoshiko Inuyama
Kazuo Hashimoto
Shiho Yoshimura
Hirofumi Nishida

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yûta Shimotsu
Writers: Yûta Shimotsu, Rumi Kakuta
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Yûta Shimotsu, shot by Ryuto Iwabuchi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Yuma Koda. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Yûta Shimotsu shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Kotone Furukawa and Koya Matsudai and Masashi Arifuku carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Happiness on earth has a limit.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Yûta Shimotsu directs. Ryuto Iwabuchi behind the camera. Yuma Koda scores. Yûta Shimotsu cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 2 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Yûta Shimotsu, shot by Ryuto Iwabuchi. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Yuma Koda. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Yûta Shimotsu shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Kotone Furukawa and Koya Matsudai and Masashi Arifuku carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Happiness on earth has a limit.".
9IMDB entry: tt28117942 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 51 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ryuto Iwabuchi
Original score: Yuma Koda
Editing: Yûta Shimotsu
Production design: Shintaro Matsumoto
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Status: Released
Original language: JA
IMDB: Best Wishes to All (2024)
Metacritic: 70/100
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 1,450 votes

Awards

1 win & 3 nominations total

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Community reviews

What people are saying

MichaelChoi2023-07-08
★ 7/10
Best Regards to All (みなに幸あれ), 2023 SHIMOTSU Yuta, 7/10 stars, a nursing student travels to her grandparents’ home in the countryside to experience a series of unfolding horrors. Elegiac portrayal of village life on top of which a horror story is built.
Alunauwie2026-01-31
★ 6/10
Best Wishes to All explores a disturbing idea that happiness is limited and often built upon the suffering of others, expanding its award-winning short into a full-length film. While the feature version introduces broader scope and darker context, it loses the intimate shock and psychological sharpness that made the original so effective. Despite its strong moral concept, uneven development and unanswered questions prevent the film from fully realizing its unsettling potential. Read the full review here: (Indonesian version : alunauwie.com) and (English version : uwiepuspita.com)